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This study investigates the relationship between financial development and inclusive growth in Nigeria for the period 1980 – 2013. The technique of analysis is the quantile regression; which is to obtain a threshold for which the former impacts on the latter. The result shows a threshold level of 90th percentile. Interestingly, the study also found that the impact of financial development on inclusive growth depends on the measure of the former up to the threshold level and not beyond....

To evaluate the hepatic and obstetric complications in pregnant women with cirrhosis. We report the cases of four pregnant women with cirrhosis treated in the gastroenterology and obstetrics-gynecology departments of the Lome Campus University Teaching Hospital between 2013 and 2015. The women's mean age was 32 years. Three were in the first trimester of pregnancy. Almost all had signs of advanced cirrhosis, including ascites (50%), lower-limb edema (75%), and jaundice (25%). All (100%) had...

Background In pediatric surgery, significant differences in education and practice exist between developed and developing nations. We compared the training of senior fellows in a Canadian and a Kenyan pediatric surgery training program, and evaluated a fellow exchange between the programs. Methods The study was performed six years after creation of the exchange program. Areas studied included case volume and distribution, length of training, curriculum, work hours, and an estimate of service...

Background: Hospital acquired infections are increasingly becoming a public health problem and happen usually as a result of poor compliance to standard precaution practices among Health Care Workers (HCW). Health care students are exposed to infectious diseases during their clinical training and may have to perform certain procedures which place this young inexperienced population at a significant risk of contracting and transmitting such diseases. Objectives: To determine the predictors...

Clinical nursing competence (CNC) is the essence of the nursing profession. It has received attention as a central component of nursing education; however, most instruments of measure were developed in high income countries and essentially in English. To gauge the CNC of nursing students attending Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs, a specialized scale is needed. This study aimed to validate a French version of the 22-item Clinical Nursing Competence Questionnaire (CNCQ-22), designed...

To examine the problem of underrepresentation of minority students in doctoral programs, the author utilized a mixed-methods case study of an online doctoral program in which large numbers of African American and Latina/o students were enrolled. Themes uncovered in the study centered on specific academic and nonacademic challenges, the important role of mentors, and the impact of degree completion on students. Recommendations include effective mentor–mentee matching and increased sensitivity...

Education systems all over the world are composed of different stakeholders. These stakeholdersvary according to countries. In some countries, stakeholders are identified and categorised and their ...

Today’s learners are born into a multimedia world and feel quite comfortable in an electronic learning environment. The high-quality sound, realistic colour images, graphics, narrations, real-time recordings and full motion videos from multimedia, which are integrated in History lessons, are what the learners of today want and need in their learning. In the study on which this article is based, efforts were made to determine the extent to which Intermediate Phase History teachers (Grade 4-6)...

Classroom discussions with predominantly White, middle-class student teachers revealed that they still perceive HIV as a disease which Black, poor and promiscuous people bring on themselves. Unless such beliefs are problematized, they are likely to be perpetuated in their teaching of HIV and sex education in the Life Orientation classroom. To disrupt this thinking, I invited a professional White woman who has lived with HIV for the past 16 years to share her lived experiences. Students...

The study attempted to examine the students‘ satisfaction with the availability of eresources, students‘ satisfaction with the availability of infrastructure, students‘ satisfaction with the staff commitment and students‘ involvement in using the e-resources in Colleges of Education in Northeastern Nigeria. This is a descriptive correlational study and using questionnaires as the instruments. The study covers 5 colleges of education, and only NCE level 3 students were involved in...

Background: Antimicrobial stewardship is currently not mandatory as part of the undergraduate training of pharmacists. Identifying gaps in knowledge and a better understanding of pharmacy students’ perceptions about antimicrobial stewardship could assist in recommendations for appropriate changes to the pharmacy degree curricula that may lead to more appropriate use of antimicrobials, within the multi-disciplinary team.Methods: A descriptive quantitative study with a survey design was...

The literature shows that leadership is the second most important factor influencing school and learner outcomes, including levels of literacy and numeracy, school leaving examination results, and progression to secondary and higher education. This article focuses on school leadership in West Africa, drawing on a systematic review of the academic and ‘grey’ literature, commissioned by UNESCO. The aim of the desk research was to ascertain the state of school leadership at all levels. The...

Access and equity to Higher Education in Malawi remains a challenge as qualified students are left out due to limited classroom infrastructure in public universities. Between 1994 and 1996, only 5,561 students (30% female and 70% male) were enrolled in our universities.  From 2008 to 2016, total enrollment has not surpassed 0.03%.Going by these realities; Malawi has two options for increasing access to higher education: either to expand the f2f residential hostel and classroom...

The purpose of the study was to determine the major parenting styles and their influence on senior secondary school students’ social interaction in the area. The study made use of a sample of 1517 senior secondary class 2 students. It was an expost facto design with a structured questionnaire for data collection. The instrument was pre-tested to establish its validity and reliability. The results indicated that most parents seemed to adopt authoritative parenting style in their child...

Training and capacity building are long established critical components of global water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) policies, strategies, and programs. Expanding capacity building support for WaSH in developing countries is one of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals. There are many training evaluation methods and tools available. However, training evaluations in WaSH have been infrequent, have often not utilized these methods and tools, and have lacked rigor. We developed a...

Drought stress linked with climate change is one of the major constraints faced by common bean farmers in Africa and elsewhere. Mitigating this constraint requires the selection of resilient varieties that withstand drought threats to common bean production. This study assessed the drought response of 64 small red-seeded genotypes of common bean grown in a lattice design replicated twice under contrasting moisture regimes, terminal drought stress and non-stress, in Ethiopia during the dry...

Cassondra Deming and Janey Helland are students in the PA program at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minn. Tara Rick is an adjunct professor in the PA program at St. Catherine University and practices medical oncology at University of Minnesota Physicians in Minneapolis, Minn.